Apple removes some apps that allowed stealing user information
It's not been a good time for Apple when it comes to security and privacy it means. And it seems that in their applications store they have managed to sneak several problems despite their security measures, which until now had a reputation for being strict but effective. Thus, after the problem of infected applications that broke out in China a couple of weeks ago, now we have to talk about tools that have been stealing user information without no one would notice.Of course, this time around, Apple has decided to take quick action to fix the problem.
The key to this issue lies in the privacy and security of the user. Features that Apple wants to preserve, and so has decided to remove several applications that were available in the App Store. And it was discovered that some of the famous tools capable of blocking ads from allowed the installation of a certificate that gives developers access to Internet traffic and encrypted user information Something that has not been exploited in all cases to steal data, but which poses a clear risk to users
In this way, the company has confirmed the elimination of some applications that offered the possibility of analyzing data such as the web pages that the user visits Information that iOS encrypts and protects, but that these applications are capable of bypassing being able to put in check to the user. Of course, apparently these applications are not used for this actively, but the safest thing is to prevent them from carrying out these tasks.
Meanwhile, the company from Cupertino ensures working with the developers themselves to try to get apps back to the App Store as soon as possible. As long as they solve this issue to avoid theft of user information. And many of them work by diverting the user's Internet traffic through their own servers Something like a bypass that allows inject or extract information from said traffic, in this case avoiding the ads of that appear on web pages or even in the applications themselves.Thus, these servers are in charge of diverting traffic and filtering it for the convenience of the user, of course being able to take advantage of this feature to analyze what the user sees and does on the Internet
In order to avoid a greater evil, Apple has taken action on the matter quickly, so usersYou shouldn't have to worry about your security and privacy if you use these blocking tools. Of course, many of them already warn of the risks of using a VPN or virtual private networkto compress the data or extract the traffic. At the moment, those detected by Apple that had the certificate that allowed developers to access to this information have already disappeared, without being able to download them. Now we will have to see how long it takes until a new key is found for these applications to work again in App Store
